Health Care Crisis

Issues over 50 subpoenas to New York certified home health agencies

NEW YORK, NY (August 20, 2007) – In an effort to rein in fraud in New York’s home health care industry, New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has subpoenaed over 50 certified home health agencies in the New York metropolitan area, and has requested additional self-disclosure information from 10 of the largest among them.    » read more »

Minorities No Longer More Likely to Be Undiagnosed but Less Educated Are

August 13, 2007 -- The number of men in the United States with undiagnosed diabetes has declined sharply over the past 25 years, with Hispanics and African-Americans no longer more likely than whites to unknowingly have the disease, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today.

Study author James P. Smith found that in 1999-2002 about 20 percent of American men who had diabetes did not know they had the disease, in contrast to 25 years ago when about half of the men with diabetes were undiagnosed.    » read more »

02/27/2007 -- Following their meeting today, Governor Schwarzenegger sent the attached letter to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt to outline his health care priorities for California and to continue his dialogue with top health officials to fix California's broken health care system. See attached background document for additional information. The text of the letter:

February 27, 2007

The Honorable Michael O. Leavitt
Secretary of Health and Human Services
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20201    » read more »